This resource guide is a collection of links to useful English websites and resources pertaining to Japanese studies and humanities in Japan. It includes scholarly societies of Japan, GLAM and other institutions that house materials pertaining to Japan, overseas Japanese research institutions, and humanities databases. It also offers a brief description for each link to show its covering area, materials, and periods. Entries are made according to each database, not each institution.

As a rule, resources are listed according to the following rules: resources dealing with general concern of the category come first, those related to Japan come second, and those with humanities outputs relevant to Japan come third. Resources are generally ordered chronologically and related topics are grouped together.

This guide is a work of National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU). This guide is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 without regard to copyright disclaimer of the other part of website. We continue to work hard to improve the guide. Information provided is as of February 2015. We hope this guide would benefit humanities researchers worldwide by bridging the gap between them and the resources.